Improvement in carpet-fasteners



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ANTOINE GIVAUDAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Letters Patent No. 113,874, dated April 18, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT iN CARPET-FASTENER'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lam..

To whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTOINE GIVAUDAN, of the city and county of VvTashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements io CarpetJdastenei-s of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide meansk whereby a carpet may be fastened down upon and detached from the Hoor expeditiously and without trouble, dispensing with the tacks and other similar devices which it is so troublesome to drive into and extract from the carpet and door.

The fastener in which my invention consists is composed of two parts: the one a staple, which is intended to be driven into the door around the borders of the carpet; the other a hook provided with metallic prongs or stays, formed and arranged with relation to one another as hereinafter described, which hold it to the carpet, the book being applied to the under side of and near the edge of the carpet so as to be concealed in great measure fromV view, and both hook and staple vbeing permanently fixed in their respective places, and requiring no further adjustment so'long as the carpet is used with them.-

To fasten down the carpet the hook is caught in the staples, and when the carpet is to be taken up or loosened the hook is drawn out from and released from the staple; these operations being readil'v and expeditiously performed by hand.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the manner in which Imy invention is carried into effect.

Figure 'l represents a piece of carpet and the door upon which it is laid, the corner of the carpet being tiirned back to exhibit more clearly the hook on the under side of the carpet and the staple which is driven into the floor.

Figure 2 is a View on an'enlargedwscale of that portion of the fastener which is attached tothe carpet.

The fastening-hook A is preferably of :sheet metal, made substantially as shown in tig. 2, with pointed prongs or fingers a a projecting from the shank of the hook on the side opposite to that on which the hook proper b is-formed.

The prongs are arranged with relation to one another as shown--that-is to say, the` central part of the shank A, iipon which the middle prong a is formed, extends hack some distance beyond that part of the shank upon which the side prongs a are located. The prongs are thus arranged triangularly, and are not all three in the same line, thereby re-i moving. all liability of tearing the carpet, andallo`w` ing the prongs to be made shorter than they otherwise could be without unduly 'increasing the si'ze of this part ofthe fastener.

In order to attach the hook to the carpet I apply it to the under sideand Ynear the edge of theA carpet, as shown in fig. 1, then force-the prongs a a' up 'thronghthe carpet and bend down the projectingportion of the prongs so as to clamp the hook tightly in position.

Thestaple B is made of any suitable metal, and is so shaped as to permit the hook b toA readily engage with or enter it. Itis driven in the loo'r opposite and in proper relative Vposition to the hook 'with which it is designed to engage, and the carpet is then fastened down at that point by drawing it up 'toward 1 the| staple until thehook A enters or is caught in the' same. i

When'the parts are in this position the hook and staple are concealed fronrview, aud'no portion of the fastening need be visible .except the ends ofthe prongs a, which are scarcely noticeable.

The hook and staple when once secured in their proper position in the floor and carpet are'p'ermanent fixtures, and can be employed without change so long as the carpet is used to cover the floor in which the staples are driven.

It is needless to say that the carpet can, under the arrangement described, be taken up quite as easily as it can be put down. In fact, when the hooks and staples are once in position the removal or putting down of the carpet willbe an affair of a few moments only.

Witnesses M. BAILEY, EDM. F. BROWN. 

